On the basis of the chemical-pharmaceutical laboratory of the Educational Establishment "Vitebsk State Order of Peoples’ Friendship Medical University", aided by Carl Zeiss Optec Vertriebs GmbH company’s engineers from Minsk and Moscow, the newest laser microdissection device and ejection of the PALM system based on the Axio Observer 7 inverted microscope was installed, commissioned and put into operation. In the Republic of Belarus, a similar device is used only in the molecular-genetic laboratory of carcinogenesis of the State Institution "Republican Scientific and Practical Center of Oncology and Medical Radiology named after V.I. N.N. Alexandrov ".

The library informs its readers that the university has renewed the Cochrane Library subscription.

On December 16, 2020 a delegation from the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka visited Vitebsk State Medical University.  It comprised of the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka to the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus His Excellency Professor M.D. Lamawansa, Deputy Ambassador, Minister Plenipotentiary, Adviser to the Embassy, Mr. Mohamed Anas, wife of the Ambassador Mrs. Tamaramala Kannangara and personal assistant/interpreter of the Ambassador Mrs. Olesya Romanova.

Mostafa Mohamed Tarek Ebrahem (Egypt)
Tharsi Shanmuganathan (Great Britain)
Alsalami Rafeeq Masoud Almahdi (Libya)
Youssef Nassar (Lebanon)
Elias Cedric (Lebanon)
Maqtarah Ragi Ahmed Yahya (Yemen)
Muhtada Imad Abu Idris Hamed (Sudan)

Due to technical problems (Internet), the date of exams to be held on 12-13 August in the online system is postponed. The exact date of the exams will be announced shortly.

On July 3, 2020, a regular meeting of the chemical-pharmaceutical scientific and educational cluster of the EAEU and CIS countries was held via video link. The organizer of the meeting was St. Petersburg Chemical and Pharmaceutical University, the coordinator of the cluster. The agenda of the meeting was to make a decision on joining of new members to the cluster, to approve development program and solve organizational issues of the cluster.

As of the date of the meeting, the cluster included 12 institutions of higher medical and pharmaceutical education of the Russian Federation. On July 3, 2020, the cluster took in 4 new educational institutions - one each from the Russian Federation, the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Republic of Uzbekistan.

Vitebsk State Order of Peoples’ Friendship Medical University will represent the Republic of Belarus in the chemical-pharmaceutical scientific and educational cluster. In total, cluster members involve 16 institutions of higher medical and pharmaceutical education of the EAEU and CIS countries.